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In the Forum: Didital Things
In the Thread: New sample 24/96 downloads from HDTT
Post Subject: I do not see your position of disagreementPosted by Romy the Cat on: 2/11/2008
 HDTT wrote:
I beg to differ with Romys assesment of my signature sound, one thing I found out is people are very,very different in what they like and dislike. An example is a "quote" reviewer (which will remain nameless) did not like my Stravinsky Historic du Soldat he said, this is a direct quote "have to say, however that I feel the *Stravinsky* *Histoire* is a rather pedestrian performance in a somewhat flat sounding hall, so I think we'll pass on reviewing that one" (which Romy is familiar with this recording) and also got many rave reviews from reviewers needless to say I didn't send that reviewer any more of my releases. Love to hear some feedback from the people on this forum on what they think of the samples that I have for posted.
And your example with Stravinsky’s “Histoire” exactly the point of illustration. The Histoire is from my point of view is absolutely the best recording that HDTT produced so far and if the reviewer called it a “pedestrian performance” just because it was the “flat sounding hall” then it is an ultimate verification of the reviewer’s idiocy. However, the example does not indicate that people are “different in what they like and dislike”- people are different in what they looking. According to your moron-reviewer the performance of the Shostakovich 8 in London by Mravinsky should be burned out just because it has huge reflections from right and left walls of the hall. I see the point of the reviewer who did not like the over-damped acoustic in recording hall but why to it makes the performance pedestrian I have no idea. I might make the recording compromised in a way but it is a very different subject how to deal with it - the subject that obvious would be way ahead of the competence and reference points of a typical audio reviewer.

BTW, here is the qestion: what is the HDTT "Signature Sound", because it is where I feel the HDTT slips in “seriousness”.

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